OBSCENE AND GROTESQUE PHYSIOGNOMIES

Michael Kvium, in a personal gallery of monstrous, obscene and grotesque physiognomies, unfurls this complex of problems which we might repress – or which we cannot stand being confronted with. His canvases are peopled by deformed, crumpled up, bound or coalesced human bodies. But his artistic vocabulary also spans across a series of paintings of misshapen organic excrescencies of an indeterminate character, which call cancerous occurrences or abortive cloning attempts to mind. These are paintings that possess a great deal of aesthetic beauty in spite of the outrageous monstrousness of their content.

[Source: Artodyssey]

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